Sound of Byzantium – The Byzantine Musical Instruments

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Antonios Botonakis, Nikos Maliaras, Chriastian Troelsgard, Merve Özkiliç, Merve Ozkilic

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Essays, imagery, and an illustrated dictionary for the instruments of the Byzantine era. More than one hundred color plates accompany essays on representations of musical instruments in Byzantine iconography and literature and account for their uses in state ceremonies of the Middle and Late Byzantine periods. The contributors explore the musical instruments in Byzantine sources and evaluate their importance for specific themes in Byzantine traditions. Innovative and insightful, this comprehensive volume also contains a dictionary of musical instruments, accompanied by original drawings specially prepared for this publication.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-07-06
Mått8 x 11 x 1 mm
Vikt804 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor114
FörlagKoc University Press
ISBN9786057685858

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Antonios Botonakis is a musicologist, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) at Koç University in Istanbul, and a faculty member at Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece. Nikos Maliaras is professor of the history of musical instruments at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Christian Troelsgård is associate professor of Greek and Latin philology at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Merve Özkılıç is an archaeologist and an editor and project coordinator at GABAM.

Preface – Engin AkyürekIntroduction - Antonios Botonakis & Merve Özkiliç1) Iconography of Musical Instruments in Byzantine Visual Sources – Antonios Botonakis2) Musical Instruments in Byzantine Literature - Christian Troelsgård3) Ceremonial and Military Music and Musical Instruments for Byzantine Emperors in The Middle and Late Byzantine Period - Nikos MaliarasDictionary of Byzantine Musical Instruments – Prepared by Antonios Botonakis and illustrated by Ezgi ÖzbakkalogluBibliographyIndex